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The Broadway transfer of the popular West End comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, about a manservant pulled between two bosses — and his own voracious appetite — began performances Apri…
The Tony Award-winning WWI epic War Horse celebrates its one-year anniversary on Broadway April 14 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
Television star Raven-Symoné made her Broadway debut as the new wimple-wearing disco diva of Broadway's Sister Act, beginning March 27 at the Broadway Theatre.
The origins of Peter Pan, his nemesis Captain Hook and the enchanted island of Neverland come to life in Peter and the Starcatcher, the wildly imaginative stage production helmed by Roger Re…
The 2009 Tony Award-winning Best Musical makes its Los Angeles premiere at the Pantages Theatre in a limited engagement through May 13.
The work of legendary caricaturist Al Hirschfeld is now on exhibition at The Society of Illustrators through June 2. Playbill.com offers an exclusive sneak peek at some of the items on disp…
Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Debbie Reynolds and more were on hand at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood April 12 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the "Cabaret" film. The event kicked …
Bob Balaban, Peter Cincotti, show composer Alan Menken and more were on hand at the April 12 performance of Broadway's Leap of Faith.
In anticipation of Broadway's sexiest night of the year, ten men from Broadway Bares will offer a one-night-only edition of Broadway Bares: Solo Strips May 6 at XL Nightclub.
Bernadette Peters joined the cast of Broadway's Anything Goes onstage at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre April 11, celebrating the 80th birthday of legendary actor Joel Grey.
Magic/Bird, Eric Simonson's highly theatrical drama about the college-to-Olympics rivalry and friendship of basketball heroes Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird, opened at B…
The Columnist, David Auburn's character study about the complexities and contradictions in the life and work of the late conservative journalist Joseph Alsop, got its first performance o…
The cast of Broadway's Once performed on "The Late Show With David Letterman" March 29 before heading to the Jacobs for their evening performance. Company member J. Michael Zyg…
An all-new production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which stars Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker and Daphne Rubin-Vega and brings a multi-ethnic frame to the New Orl…
Singer-actor Tony Vincent, most recently seen on Broadway in American Idiot, was eliminated from the NBC reality singing competition "The Voice" on the April 10 broadcast following…
The next episode of the new NBC musical drama "Smash," titled "The Movie Star," will air April 16 at 10 PM ET.
Lauren Kennedy and Nikka Lanzarone, currently starring in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods at Baltimore CenterStage, introduce an unsung hero and veteran of the show: T…
Broadway's Seminar, the new play by Theresa Rebeck, got a new poison pen in the form of Jeff Goldblum starting on April 3. He succeeded Alan Rickman as a literary lion who judges the wor…
The Broadway cast of Lysistrata Jones offered two April 9 reunion concerts of the acclaimed Broadway score at Joe's Pub.
Jennifer Laura Thompson, currently back on Broadway in Nice Work If You Can Get It, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.
Bob Glaudini and Kevin Corrigan co-star as father and son, respectively, in the world premiere of Brett C. Leonard's Philadelphia-set drama Ninth and Joanie, which began performances Apr…
Angela Lansbury returned to the Broadway stage March 6 in Michael Wilson's new revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man. Playbill.com offers a look back her most memorable performances o…
The Voca People, stars of Off-Broadway's intergalactic a capella musical, hit the town last week and took in some of New York's famous sites.
Ghost The Musical, the supernatural romance based on the Academy Award-winning 1990 film, began Broadway previews March 15 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
Eighty people, sporting red “Petersburg Pride” shirts trekked six hours on a bus from Petersburg, VA, to NYCÂ’s Broadhurst Theater to celebrate the Broadway debut of their hometow…
